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Large Porcupine Invades CityHutchinson has had several! firsts in the past year and now it; has another one — it’s first por*j cupine.The spiney animal was spotted!early Wednesday morning in an| alley on East Campbell and H took the combined efforts of Mrs.Sidney Hamilton. 412 East Campbell , and her 10-year-old grandson Richard to dispose of it. \ ^“I'm 66 years old but this is! i the first time in my life 1 have ever seen one/* said Mrs. Hamilton as she carefully lifted it off the ground.\ The porcupine was over two feet |long and would have weighed more | than 30 pounds.1 Dogs in the neighborhood have I been restless for the past several I nights and Mrs, Hamilton believes |the visitor may have been in thej i vicinity for some time. ;I She first saw it running around! j in circles in the alley. “1 thougbtj ,it was a 'coon,** she said, “and! believed I had better kill it to I; protect the chickens.”1 1 4Mrs. Hamilton took a long clothesline pole and began striking the animal with the pole. On get-, ting close to it, she realized it wasi definitely a porcupine. Some of the jianimal’s quills are still sticking in. „? j the long pole, \ PORCUPINE, killed In alley on Ea*t Campbell Wednesdayij The grandson, Richard, heard1 niornlng* is held by Mr*. Sidney Hamilton and Mrs. Marvin ,’thc commotion and he came outi Huxman. It Is the first one known to have been found In Hutch*I and shot it with a BB gun. That] jn8on.)land a final rap on the nose byj . ... . .. _nr-I Mrs. Hamilton's pole put it out fori The area in which the battle took.which had been find by th. p igood. place was covered with quills|cupine during the fifint.
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Wed, Jun 30, 1954
Page 17
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